Timber seat and support.



No. 761,020. PATBNTED MAY 24, 1904.

J. TUTEUR.

TIMBER SEAT AND SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22. 1903.

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Patented May 24,1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS TUTEUR, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TIMBER SEAT AND SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,020, dated May 24, 1904. Application filed September 22, 1903. Serial No. 174,192. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it nmy concern:

Be it known that I, J ULIUS TUTEUR, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Timber Seats and Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in timber seats and supports, and has for its object the provision of a combined post-cap and girder-support of the simplest and cheapest construction upon principles insuring, however, the maximum of strength and security in uniting and sustaining the associated timbers.

The post-cap of my invention in its simplest form comprises, preferably, but three pieces of mild steel, two of which are flat and the third a simply-shaped bearing-plate bolted thereto by transverse bolts in a manner to reinforce its bearing-ledges and form a supporting-truss for the girders. The posts and girders are secured within my improved device by means of lag-screws; but by reason of its features of construction the post-cap serves to carry all of the weight of the supported parts, thereby relieving the lag-screws of their weight.

My said improvements will be much more readily comprehended by making reference to the accompanying drawings, illustrating a simple timber seat and support embodying my invention, wherein- Figure I is a perspective view of the supporting-posts and two associated girders structurally united by means of the post cap. Fig. II is a side view of said device; and Fig. III, an end view thereof, showing as well by dotted lines a desirable modification when the girders and posts are of different size.

The same character of reference has been employed throughout to designate similar parts that any confusion may be avoided.

Two vertical side plates p of mild steel and identical form are shaped to embrace the adjacent ends of the united timbers and punched or bored to receive the lag-screws s, entering said timbers. These plates are united with the bearing-plate h by means of the heavy transverse bolts Z Z, extending through the structure from side to side. Said bearing-plate is bent throughout its length along both edges, as best indicated in Fig.

III, to afford angularly-extending side pieces k reinforcing the side plates 2) p, and the bolts Z) Z) are so positioned as to lie adjacent, respectively, to the side faces of the lower post Z and beneath the supported ends of the girders g 9 Between these girders the upper timber 2. may be positioned above post Z for carrying the weight of the superposed structure. Although all of these timbers are shown in the drawings cut squarely off, it will be understood that they comprise a portion of a building structure, the girders roughly representing one of the floor-levels. Ordinarily flat side plates 19 p are used; but where the girders are of larger dimensions than the supporting-post Z, for example, the side plates may be bent, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. III, at p or p to accommodate the larger timbers. This and other modifications, however, I do not consider as requiring any particular reference or description herein, it being apparent to those conversant with the building trades that this class of devices commonly requires sufiicient alteration or change in design to conform to the specific conditions presented by different structures or buildings. Constructed substantially as set forth, however, my improved timber-support forms a truss rigidly sustaining the associated timbers and offers a maximum of efliciency with a given weight and cost of construction over any structure of its class previously devised. This, it may be observed, is due principally to the correct formation and disposition of the rigid bearing-plate, having integral reinforcing side pieces attached to the wider side plates by means of adjacently-supported displaced bolts. Bolts Z are positioned immediately beneath the supported end portions of the girders near the extremities of the plates, while bolts Z are disposed out of alinement therewith near the lower edges of the side pieces 7L and immediately adjacent to the supporting-post Z. Thus there is effected a material reinforcement of the sustaining side portions of the device, comprising the united double thicknesses of metal, which obviously may be increased as required by lengthening the bent side pieces 75, so that they will coincide, if necessary, with the lower edges of the side plates. The strain or weight of the supported girders is carried by the truss-like arrangement of parts, being transmitted in direct line approximately between bolts 6 to 6 within the bodies of the depending side pieces and their connected side plates. The latter also embrace the adjoining or connected ends of the timbers, holding them rigidly in alinement with each other.

Having now described and shown this ex tremely simple and efficient type of timber seat and support embodying my invention, I claim, together with such modifications thereof as may be made by mere skill, the followmg:

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with the integral side plates embracing the presented ends of each-of the connectedtimbcrs, of an interposed bearing-plate for carrying the horizontal timbers, the same having angularly-extending side pieces, and bolts or their equivalents uniting the side pieces with the side plates to reinforce said bearing-plate, substantially as set forth.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with the two integral side plates including the end portions of the associated timbers, of an interiorly-disposed bearingplate having its edges bent angularly to form side pieces, and bolts uniting the bearing-plate with the side plates to reinforce the former and rigidly sustain the supported timber, substantially as set forth.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with the two flat side plates shaped to embrace the end portions of the presented timbers and retain them in position, of a bearing-plate mounted between them, the same having its edges bent downward to form reinforcing side portions, and transverse bolts extending from side to side of the device, uniting the side plates with the bearing-plate, substantially as set forth.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with the sideplates, of a bearingplate disposed thereloetween for carrying the transverse timbers, and displaced bolts extending from side to side of the device, uniting said parts and positioned adjacent to the timbers to assist in carrying them, substantially as set forth.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with the side plates and the connecting bearing-plate, of transverse bolts relatively displaced and respectively positioned adjacent to the supported and supporting timbers, substantially as set forth.

6. A device of the class described, comprising shaped sheet steel parts forming side plates for receiving or including the end portions of the presented timbers and retaining them in position, a supporting-ledge or bearing-plate for carrying the timbers, and reinforcing side pieces secured to the side plates or portions receiving the timbers, and serving to stay the same, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Cleveland, this 21st day of September, 1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JULIUS TUTEUR.

Witnesses ISAAC (J. TITUS, ALBERT LYNN LAWRENCE. 

